No, the vast majority of parents are and always have been lazy and willing to take the quickest shortcut to avoid the hard work of parenting. Ipads for childre

No, the vast majority of parents are and always have been lazy and willing to take the quickest shortcut to avoid the hard work of parenting. Ipads for children took off because it lets parents avoid parenting for hours a day. Melatonin took off because it lets parents avoid enforcing bedtime and sleep hygeine. It's not about stress, most people are just lazy af and this is a quick fix. That's human nature. (And to be clear I'm not saying it's some novel cultural failing. If iPads had been available in the 1400 toddlers would have had screen addiction in the 1400s. We're setting parents up to fail by giving them "solutions" and then expecting them to exert superhuman willpower to avoid using them as a crutch. But it's dumb to pretend that this is because parents are more overworked now than throughout history.)